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Emanuel Levy, Variety: An amiable, life-affirming fantasy-comedy about the rejuvenation of crotchery oldsters whose main distinction is offering roles to senior actors like Don Ameche (who won an Oscar), Hume Cronyn, and Jessica Tandy Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: It has no real competition as this season's reigning fairy tale. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Director Ron Howard brings a quality of gentleness and whimsy to the performances, but basically this is a highly calculated project brought in by those two old pros, producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown. Read more